{"id":39177,"date":"2021-03-18T18:07:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39177"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:16:43","slug":"robinhood-appoints-former-google-chief-executive-aparna-chennapragada-as-director-of-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/robinhood-appoints-former-google-chief-executive-aparna-chennapragada-as-director-of-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Robinhood appoints former Google chief executive Aparna Chennapragada as Director of Product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Google chief executive Aparna Chennapragada has taken the post of Director of Product at Robinhood, the crypto-friendly platform. According to a company statement.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chennapragada will oversee all of the platform&#8217;s products, design and research. Company representatives said that the appointment of the new top executive would enable Robinhood to create solutions that will make finance more accessible.<\/p>\n<p>At Google, Chennapragada led the development of various products across the search engine, virtual assistant and YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Bloomberg sources reported the platform&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bloomberg-robinhood-plans-to-file-for-ipo-in-march\">to confidentially file for<\/a> an IPO in March.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/robinhood-crypto-platform-audience-grows-by-6-million-in-january-february\">In January\u2013February 2021, the Robinhood mobile app audience grew by 6 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aparna Chennapragada, former Google chief executive, has taken the post of Director of Product at Robinhood, the crypto-friendly platform, according to a company statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1234],"class_list":["post-39177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-robinhood"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39179,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39177\/revisions\/39179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}